Photo editing on the road is always challenging, with the need for a high-quality display, fast graphics, and lots of RAM at odds with carrying a lightweight laptop. Here are some of the best laptops we’ve found for the road-warrior photographer.

AI is a trend, and it’s always nice to be trendy, but as great as CPQ is, it’s still only one source of data. Without sufficient data, AI is extremely limited. It’s like allowing your toddler to learn only about colors: The kid might be a whiz with colors, all right, but without context — in other words, more data — that information won’t make any sense. This is the scary, behind-the-curtain aspect of AI: We’re still in a world where the systems depend on us humans to ensure they’re getting the data they need to deliver good results.

Microsoft’s previous hardware efforts have always made good sense if you were in a niche whose needs they were designed to meet. The new Surface Laptop takes everything good about previous Surface products and flushes it.

Paying off criminals doesn’t always work, as Kansas Heart Hospital learned this week. They paid off ransomware, only to be asked for more money by the attackers. It’s just the latest in a long string of hospital ransomware attacks.

Apple fanatics are always digging, looking for clues about what could be next for the company, and many times seeing things where they don’t exist. The latest conspiracy theory: Apple subtly showed off an iPhone 6s-like design without a protruding rear camera at its media event on Monday.

Clicking or tapping a link in an email, text or on a website is always a bit of a gamble. On the other end could be the information you want to see, or it could be a malicious website, virus-filled download or inappropriate content.

Ransomware is always going to present a major headache for any victim, but when a hospital is at the center of an attack, the matter suddenly appears more threatening, with the stakes potentially a whole lot higher.

Google’s ability to distribute new Android updates has always lagged far behind Apple’s iOS, but the situation is even worse in China, where the “Lollipop” version 5.x, introduced in 2014 alongside iOS 8, has only reached about a fifth of all devices, two thirds the distribution it has achieved elsewhere.